The anti-frivolous bastardisation person has just said:

Just to confirm that my original post:

'Frankly, this kind of issue is nothing compared to the endless colon, dash, end brackets that I see being used so frequently online. This, and such variants as semicolon, dash, end bracket and colon, dash, capital o are ruinous to online textual integrity.

Frivolous bastardisation of our punctuation is one of the key witnesses to the current decline of our wonderful nation.'

Was indeed a joke. :-) (did you wonder why I didn't actually write a smiley in it?)

In fact, I use far too many dashes, unnecessary inverted commas, capitalisations and exclamation marks, and unnecessary repetition in my writing to be textually 'accurate' - so there!

Also, I write the word 'website', not Web site, or web site. Double 'so there'!!

This reminds me of a recent debate caused by Dame Edna Everage saying bad things in Vanity Fair and being taken seriously. The enigmatic mermaid posted it and you can read the original post and some interesting comments about it here

B-)